Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
